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Small World
Developer Days of Wonder
CONTROL FANTASY RACES, SET OFF TO CONQUER NEW LANDS, OVERTHROW YOUR ENEMIES AND CLAIM THE VICTORY! In this digital adaptation of the legendary board game, dive into a world inhabited by whimsical fantasy races. From the Steam store page
220 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 15, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
47
Mixed
84 positive · 96 negative
95% range 40–54%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 84 | 96 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 9 | 1 | 28 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
710 of 1,088 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
47% recommend · 87 yes, 99 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 186 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (1,033 of 1,520 positive).
Players praise the game's faithful adaptation of the board game and its strategic depth. [1][2][3] Many reviewers report frequent crashes and technical issues, especially in multiplayer. [4][5][6] Some players warn that online multiplayer is broken or servers are shut down. [7][8][9]
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- [1]
Another board game adaptation, Small World is a fun, short game that can be played in about 30 minutes. It’s a very simple game, but it has depth to it that makes it difficult to master. Small World involves less chance and more strategy than other similar games. To overtake a territory you just need enough tokens. You spend these tokens overtaking each territory, and you only roll the dice if you have a couple of …
- [2]
Small World, developed by Days of Wonder and brought to digital platforms with publishing support from Twin Sails Interactive, is a strategy experience that translates the spirit of a competitive tabletop game into a clean and approachable digital format. It revolves around a deceptively simple idea: too many factions are fighting over too little land, and only those who adapt quickly will come out ahead. That …
- [7]
The store page says that this game offers "online PVP", but that is false. The servers have been shut down. Do not buy this game, unless you understand that you will not be able to play with others online.
- [5]
This game is an aboslutely broken piece of s@!*. My 3 friends and I picked this up and, without exaggeration, we have never managed to complete a full game without at least one of the following technical issues. - Hosting games often doesn't work, at least one player won't be able to find the game once created. - The game crashes constantly. - Sometimes after these crashes, players become unable to rejoin the match. …
- [6]
Great board game. Unfortunately the digital port is pretty awful. Crashes frequently and consistently (1-2 times per game). The "resume game" feature often gets "stuck" so if you try to pick a game back up after a crash, it'll just keep bringing you to the score screen of the previous game.
Summarised from 34 of the 219 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 12, 2026. How summaries are made
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The crowd is split on Small World: 87 recommend it, 99 don't. Which camp are you in?
Reactions
60 of 220 · most liked firstit is important to note: thanks to internet sample sleuths, it is now a known fact that in this fully licensed Disney dancing game, Donald Duck intros the It's A Small World (Ducking Hardcore Mix) by yelling "SMELL MY FINGER BITCH"
neutral · AI labelView post →Small World Enhancements 🌎 A small mod that Improves certain meshes in the background of the Base Game worlds (e.g. The Warehouses & Containers in Willow Creek, etc.) Available for FREE on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/small-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Post script: I have never been gladder that Twitter dying led to this exodus. I have met many beautiful, generous people here, and Dr. Tom is definitely that. There is a world where I never would have gotten to know her and bond over our mutual video game husband and love of Small World.
positive · AI labelView post →Ha ha, I wrote an entire article about how Small World is a classic board game! This would have been a goof on my part if Small World weren't old enough to drive a car.
positive · AI labelView post →Gone Digital: Philippe Keyaerts' game Small World from Days of Wonder is now available for play on Board Game Arena: boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?ga... To learn about this 15-year-old classic design, head to the dedicated game page on BoardGameGeek: boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40... —WEM
neutral · AI labelView post →There's a lot of flaws in that game but the It's a Small World ass amusement park section that's like "Wounded Knee Was Awesome Actually" bangs so hard. Unfortunately feels way less over the top nowadays given the stuff the current administration wants to do with the smithsonians.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll also have NEW prints at my Game On Expo booth this year! The first I'm sharing are these three Marty McFly artworks in my Small World style!
neutral · AI labelView post →The store page says that this game offers "online PVP", but that is false. The servers have been shut down. Do not buy this game, unless you understand that you will not be able to play with others online.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Issue 21 is out now! Including our new regular feature: The Classic, where a Senet writer revisits a masterpiece board game. This issue: @danthurot.bsky.social on Small World. (Illustration by Julian Osbaldstone.) Go to senetmagazine.com to order your copy or subscribe. #boardgamesarebeautiful
neutral · AI labelView post →In today’s instalment of “It’s a Small World,” one of the ladies at yesterday’s embroidery workshop is a gamer. Today, I found out that she owns a copy of Cogs, Cakes & Swordsticks, my steampunk game, from way back when 🙂
neutral · AI labelView post →⚡Funderworld⚡ What are the attractions? "The Amazing Grant Tombola" "The Polaris House Haunted Mansion" "It's A Small World - Panel Membership Selection Game"
neutral · AI labelView post →🚨 Programming alert: Small World is now in beta on Board Game Arena 🚨
neutral · AI labelView post →Small World is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. The game is also, unfortunately, a boardgame port from a fantasy boardgame where players vie against each other's territories using the cards they have, gaining gold for each territory held, and at the end of the game the one with the most gold wins. One of the big problems here is in terms of the general design and the way the boardgame was ported.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An interesting an fun day of #BoardGames yesterday, I did very poorly in Small World, but then Blitzed the scoreboard in Ticket to Ride - got all my tickets and several end-game boosts (Red).
neutral · AI labelView post →DO NOT BUY ANY GAMES FROM TWIN SAILS INTERACTIVE (rebranding of Asmodee Digital). I encourage you to check how many bugs their games have, and how little they care about fixing them. Go stroll over their products and the bugs reports, but most importantly, the developer's reply. They have the habit of releasing stuff and strolling to the next product without ever looking back. I have personally written multiple emails to their official Ticket System, spread between months and never got a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ICYMI: Issue 21 is out now! Including our new regular: The Classic, where a Senet writer revisits a masterpiece board game. This issue: @danthurot.bsky.social on Small World. (Illustration by Julian Osbaldstone.) Go to senetmagazine.com to order your copy or subscribe. #boardgamesarebeautiful
neutral · AI labelView post →Great board game. Unfortunately the digital port is pretty awful. Crashes frequently and consistently (1-2 times per game). The "resume game" feature often gets "stuck" so if you try to pick a game back up after a crash, it'll just keep bringing you to the score screen of the previous game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hey, a new episode of Cult of the Old, with my esteemed co-hosts @giantbrain.co.uk and @mattthr.bsky.social. This time we talk about Small World, the kind of game that has become a classic because it's easy to play.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is an aboslutely broken piece of s@!*. My 3 friends and I picked this up and, without exaggeration, we have never managed to complete a full game without at least one of the following technical issues. - Hosting games often doesn't work, at least one player won't be able to find the game once created. - The game crashes constantly. - Sometimes after these crashes, players become unable to rejoin the match. - Sometimes certain actions within a game will crash the entire game. For…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm writing this review with a heavy heart because I love this board game and I think this video adaptation is a fine adaptation of the game. If you buy this to play single player only you should be fine. However, if you're buying it to play with your friends... you can't. Several months ago something was done that made it so if you're inviting a friend to play they either won't get your invitation, or will get it but the game will disappear from their queue if they close the game. My…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got to play some of my favorite boardgames this month! Space Base, Suburbia, PitchCar, and even Small World. Glad to get them back to the table.
positive · AI labelView post →Buggy and unstable on Windows; won't even launch on Linux. Good board game, absolutely worthless implementation. Small World deserved better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was Heather’s turn to pick the game for game night tonight. She chose original recipe Small World, and was… displeased… when I beat her score by 2 points to take first place.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game crashes more than any other game I have ever purchased, and I have been buying games on steam for over 20 years. Dont buy this. its garbage.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It took us more than ten years, but the new Small World of Words website is now live with better feedback and comparisons across languages. Play a game of word associations and learn what you share with others. smallworldofwords.org
neutral · AI labelView post →Server Error/Client timeout Can't play online
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun game, housed in a broken, unstable platform. Would be very enjoyable if the game didn't constantly crash.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has been said before, but this game keeps crashing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought this game specifically because I wanted to use the Steam Remote Play to play pass and play over the internet with my friends. For some reason, either through a bug or intentional attempt at copyright protection it is impossible to view the rules ingame while streaming it to friends via Streams. This is incredibly frustrating and makes the game virtually unplayable when using Steam Remote Play.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Every game has multiple crashes to desktop for everyone in the game. Seems very unstable. Sad, because the board game itself is great.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You cant play it online at all, so no, I cant recommend it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Small World, like a better Fantasy Risk Cat in the box is cute Carcassonne is fun little game Haven't played the Cuphead game yet, imagine cooperative Scrabble
neutral · AI labelView post →A great board game and a reasonable computer adaptation but you can't even set the resolution, it starts in windowed mode by default and it crashes every 10-20 mins. At least in a single player game it saves your game progress so you can resume after a crash but considering how long this game has been out you think they would have addressed some of these issues...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game crashes regularly in freaking single-player. If you reload the crashed game, it just crashes again, so you totally lose the game. Like, I understand that bugs happen sometimes in online multiplayer, but if you can't even get the game to function playing solo then you should not be able to charge for it on Steam. Happened an hour too late to request a refund. Game is good, this version is garbage.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love the physical game, but this digital adaptation is prone to glitches and crashing (and has been for a decade).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You need to find the tutorial online because the in-game video link doesn't work anymore. Only play this if you played the OG version and you can't meet your friends in IRL.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →look, the game is ok for what it is. the music gets boring fast, and some of the animations are soooo slooooow. i would actually recommend this game, i was actually going to buy it for my grandson and a friend of his, who currently dont live in the same state. BUT: luckily I happened to notice what was done to the original ticket to ride video game. Days of Wonder / Asmodee shut down the multiplayer support and produced a new version of the game. they even had the cheeck to say "current…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Continuing the kids’ classic board game education with Small World. They weren’t prepared for my cheesy Stout Humans, Spirit Ratmen, and Commando Giants.
positive · AI labelView post →And a few other games, latest was small world of Warcraft. First time playing a Small World game, a good effort, but sadly still hunting that elusive win! #UKGE
neutral · AI labelView post →Small World is my favorite "dudes on a map" #boardgame. When your non-game friend wants to play Risk, play this!
positive · AI labelView post →Good way to learn rules of the board game, but digital version is crashing constantly on WIndows, on Mac it works fine Also no way to configure anything, like speed of animations or other stuff
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished an excellent game of Small World today with friends from Amabel's trans board gamers Discord. I lost 88-87-84. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40... #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com
neutral · AI labelView post →i do not recommned this digital port to anyone. it is worst gameboard port i ever played. IT is barely playable crashing at least twice every game. Also currently for over a week server are down. Probably permanently. So DO NOT BUY THIS.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will leave this cat here, so that everybody who passes by can pet it and give it a thumbs up and awards ／＞ フ | _ _ l ／` ミ＿xノ / | / ヽ ﾉ │ | | | ／￣| | | | | (￣ヽ＿_ヽ_)__) ＼二つ
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got to introduce folks at game night to Small World and they liked it! I'm not surprised, because Small World is a really fun game, but I'm glad!
positive · AI labelView post →Game crashed every 2 minutes and I wasn't able to finish a single game after 2 hours...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun board game! tolerably glitchy game in the past however I try to play with a friend the other day and the friend system is completely broken. You can't host a game with your friends and be able to add bots. This needs to be fixed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a world of SLaughter in tonight's game of Small World: Underground. #boardgames
neutral · AI labelView post →This game used to work okay but the servers/netcode seem screwed. Can't play with friendsd anymore and the main online games are buggy and disconnecty.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Another board game adaptation, Small World is a fun, short game that can be played in about 30 minutes. It’s a very simple game, but it has depth to it that makes it difficult to master. Small World involves less chance and more strategy than other similar games. To overtake a territory you just need enough tokens. You spend these tokens overtaking each territory, and you only roll the dice if you have a couple of tokens left over, and not enough to take the territory you want. To protect…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The pageantry at a football game makes you feel like you're in starship troopers. The pageantry of a baseball game feels like you're an animatronic in Its a Small World. Here's the part where we stand up and do a biiig stretch and then sing about how we're currently watching a baseball game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Log in issues are ongoing, as posts since TWENTY FOURTEEN bear out!! "Authentication Error" issues for some, for us it's just "authenticating" forever. For. EVER. When you ask for a password reset, don't expect to play for the next 24 to 48 hours either! ASSmode service is the worst. Same issue with the old version and 2.5
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible port with insane loading times and bad online features, dated and probably safe you skip this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ghost Trick session happening later tonight at 7pm est. Playing a board game with Joe first (Small World)
neutral · AI labelView post →Cannot get it to work. Cannot get multiplayer going, too many bugs to mention, read other reviews. Seems like even though you pay for it up front, once you go in you have to pay for content. The base game is also a terrible buggy mess, terribly designed and full of bugs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Small World is a great board game, but beware, there are hardly any players online. Better to be played on BGA. It's even one of the rare cases in which the UI on BGA beats the UI of the app by a mile.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Small World (I’m Always Game) #imalwaysgame #smallworld #boardgames #tabletopgames #howtoplay www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjfYgHqJ/ youtu.be/8AAhTZuACOY?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I was thrilled to see Small World launch on Board Game Arena. Best Christmas present I got!
positive · AI labelView post →3/10 rolled a 0 7 times in a row.....
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We played some SMALL WORLD this Christmas (it was a present) and I had a #ttrpg idea: generate the history of the campaign's regional setting with a game of SMALL WORLD.
neutral · AI labelView post →
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